Sorry, I meant in reference to Mark's first hour show off thread. I also mine pre-torched areas, but for showing off what you can do in one hour in might be considered an undue advantage. ;) Still, Mark's game, Mark's rules.

Okay, here's my first hour from scratch accumulation. I used /kit basic (but I didn't use those wood tools) and didn't die. (I also didn't pop back to Valour for food ;) .) Of course, I immediately managed to lose everything in my inventory at that time by logging off to post this reply (which I ended up not posting until now.) :( Later I also managed to lose everything of note in my chest by falling through a hole while carrying them and drowning under the spawn platform. (Lag prevented me from getting back up through the hole, and I tried too many times to get to the edge in time.) All in all, it's been a tough first day.

Last week's world was much easier than this week's world, for me. That's not true for each person, I guess. I got very lucky, which is what I chose to share.
Would you believe that others did better than I did? They got full diamond armor before I even had worked for an hour!
So, I found an abandoned mine, torched it as I worked, and there were caves. That made all the coal and iron and lapis lazuli terribly easy to get! :d
And, in that mine/tunnel area, I found a dungeon. Lucky me, right?
That was last week.
This week?
A player checked out of the world in about one hour with full diamond armor and giving away chests of stuff, on the spawn platform.
Wasn't me. I wasn't even close to showing off, this week. :/
See you next week!! :d

You have done as well as you could. That is all there is to being great. GG.